Upcoming Events
Join our theatre community and watch new plays and musicals in various stages of development.
The first presentation of a new work in front of a live audience often takes the form of an unrehearsed table reading. The next stages can be fully rehearsed concert readings and workshop productions ready for invited audiences to help the authors develop their works.
These events are moveable feasts, performing in local theatre spaces in Hollywood and the North Hollywood (NoHo) arts districts and often available via livestream.
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We are currently seeking partners who will join us in bringing the new works to a larger audience.
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Mickey Monroe, a screenplay by Harris Shore. Mickey Monroe was a promising lounge singer in the early 1970s in New York, where he was given an opportunity to perform on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show, generally thought to be a career shotgun. Tragedy intervened and by the late 1980s Mickey is working as a janitor in a Los Angeles night club when he meets people who knew him in the past and they conspire to help re-launch Mickey's career.
April 5, 2025
Broadwater Black Box Theatre
2:30 p.m.
Past Events
2025
Remember Me, a new play by John S. Green. Jake, a second generation Nigerian, joined the army to prove to his father and the white world he grew up in that he was a "real American." When he returns from fighting in Afghanistan, he reaches out to his acting teacher Earl, seeking comfort, sanity and a chance to rekindle his broken dreams. Haunted by the ghosts of Shakespeare and Earl's dead son Elijah, they work together to conquer their personal demons and perform Hamlet. Thek play was heard in an unrehearsed reading on February 1, 2025 at the Broadwater Black Box Theatre in Hollywood.
February 1, 2025
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​​Lying to Spielberg, a new play by Bill Nabel. An aging holocaust survivor, Alex Havacek, gets a telephone call. It’s the Steven Spielberg Shoah Foundation calling to film his life story. At the same time, there is a knock at the front door and a perfect stranger says that he is Alex’s son. Thus starts Alex Havacek’s fight for his identity. Can a holocaust survivor ever escape his past? What is truth? What is fiction? Can he lie…. to Spielberg?
March 1, 2025
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2024
Seagull Song: A musical reconstruction of Chekov’s play, The Seagull. This work is a chamber musical for 5 actors, updated and told against the background of an American Idol style TV competition, from the viewpoint of Maya, a character based on the role of Masha in the original play. The workshop production of this piece performed at the Broadwater Black Box Theatre in Hollywood, CA from March 8 to March 24, 2024.
​Concept by Sheila Wurmser
Book by John Sparks
Music and Lyrics by Jake Anthony
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​Budapest! is a re-imagining of La Dame aux Camelias, the novel and play by Dumas fils, also told musically in the opera La Traviata . A new play by Sherman Yellen, bookwriter of The Rothschilds and Rex as well as author of An Early Frost and episodes of The Adams Chronicles. This piece was heard in an unrehearsed reading on August 3, 2024 at the Broadwater Black Box Theatre.​
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​​​Rolling With The Punches is a new play by Joel Bailey about the virtues and flaws in the way we view people with disabilities, from the living room to the street to the next location desired, with or without the ADA. An unrehearsed reading will be heard on September 7, 2024 of this play (that might become a musical one day) at the Broadwater Black Box Theatre in Hollywood at 2:30 p.m.
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Cassatt, a new play by Arden Lewis that aims to put American Mary Cassatt into her rightful place as a groundbreaking artist in a field dominated by French men. Unrehearsed reading will be heard on October 5, 2024, at the Broadwater Black Box Theatre at 2:30 p.m.
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Valencia, a new dramatic comedy by Laurel Ollstein set in the Southwestern United States where Valencia orange trees sometimes thrive and sometimes die of thirst with overtones of the steamiest telenovela ever seen. An unrehearsed reading will be heard on November 2, 2024 at the Broadwater Black Box Theatre at 2:30 p.m.
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The Arresting Dilemma of Mister K, a musical based on Kafka's novel, The Trial (book by John Sparks, music and lyrics by Jon Steinhagen) follows Joseph K after his enigmatic arrest as he tries to clear his name and search for his authentic identity in a world gone mad. An unrehearsed reading will be heard on December 7, 2024 at the Broadwater Black Box Theatre at 2:30 p.m.
2023
​The Magic Ofrenda, a concert reading of a new musical for young audiences, book by Christina Biggs, Music and Lyrics by Mike Descoteaux performed at New Musicals, Inc in North Hollywood, CA on Saturday, May 20, 2023
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2022
Seagull Song, ​as above, a concert reading performed at the Broadwater Black Box Theatre in Holllywood, CA on April 13, 2022
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